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title: "Blue-gray Tanager"
description: "Thraupis episcopus — Birds. The blue-gray tanager (Thraupis episcopus) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/blue-gray-tanager
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Blue-gray Tanager

> Thraupis episcopus — Birds. The blue-gray tanager (Thraupis episcopus) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae.

- Scientific name: *Thraupis episcopus*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 29704
- Wikidata: [Q883102](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q883102)
- iNaturalist taxon: [10295](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/10295)

## Names

- en: Blue-gray Tanager
- de: Bischofstangare
- es: Tangara azulgrís
- fr: Tangara évêque
- nl: Bisschopstangare
- pl: Tanagra niebieska

## Countries with the most observations

CO (7087), CR (5588), MX (3110), EC (3092), PA (2920), PE (1927), BR (897), TT (459), HN (444), VE (385), GF (289), SV (272)

## Summary

The blue-gray tanager (Thraupis episcopus) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. It has been introduced to Lima (Peru) and Florida (United States). On Trinidad and Tobago, this bird is called blue jean.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-gray_tanager

## Photo

![Blue-gray Tanager](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/blue-gray-tanager/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/103440119

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/blue-gray-tanager?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).